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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Taryn Raye's #sixsunday Not so fast you little pixie...

Welcome Sixers. Though I'm deep in Nano and trying to get to feeling better after having felt flu-like earlier this past week, I wanted to make sure I'd still have something to share today.

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Heading back into my currently unpublished contemporary romance, Love by Design, here's the follow up to last week's offering of Shades of Blue.

Love by Design

Jasmine Galloway sees beauty in all things but it’s not a thing of
beauty when she meets Derrek Martin, a shallow, arrogant playboy
celebrity. When her sister Juniper, a blockbuster actress, recommends
her interior design business, Décor Dreams, to Derrek, it’s sure to be a
disaster. Jasmine is uncertain she can hold her tongue and get the job
done, but she takes it, never one to let her opinions of others stand in
the way of professional success and she’s not about to let some pretty
boy win her over whose ego is as big as his blockbuster movies. It isn’t
long before Derrek’s gentle, affectionate manner and country boy charm
gets the better of her. She curses herself for allowing the tabloid
fodder to contaminate her impression of a man who might well put his
designs on her heart.

Derrek Martin counts himself lucky his
acting career took off shortly after his arrival in California. Even
more since his parents’ deaths left him the guardian of his little
sister. The new house is nice, but it needs a woman’s touch before he
brings Paige out from Indiana to live with him. He knows his reputation
in the tabloids depicts him far from who he really is, but he has never
met with a more chilly reception than the moment he meets Jasmine
Galloway, Interior Designer to the Stars. He’s sure she has read
everything bad ever published about him and disregards all the good. His
private life is simply that, private. Derrek intends to keep it that
way—until he meets Jasmine.

Her blatant dislike for him pushes a
button no one else ever has and Derrek finds he’s desperate to prove
that he isn’t what the tabloids make him out to be. More than that, he’s
determined to make her his leading lady, but will an ex with a secret
steal the spotlight away?

****

“Uh uh, not so fast you little pixie.”

She could hear the laughter in
Derrek’s voice right behind her. A joyous thrill zinged through her at teasing
him.

Large masculine hands clamped down
over her shoulders and spun her around. Her breasts slammed against his muscular
chest, jarring her into a sedated state. The pleasure at taunting him dissolved
around her as the warmth of his arms circled her waist and the chill dampness
of the paint soaked into the front of her t-shirt.

If you missed previous Six Sunday posts from Love by Design and would like to check them out, look at the top of the page in my pink tabs for SSS Posts where you can easily find links to each previous post.